Office Applications on the Web with Silverlight?

Silverlight is making the web glow at a rate we haven't seen before. If you are a .NET programmer you probably have already read my post about Netika's GOA Winforms for Silverlight that lets you port winforms windows platform application projects to Silverlight 1.1 on the web..

Well, the company has come through with a new DEMONSTRATION of the power of their product. They have put together an entire PowerPoint style application and launched it on the Web as a demonstration of the power of the company's Winforms for Silverlight.. If you have Silverlight 1.1 installed you can view the application by CLICKING HERE.

This is really amazing to look at and play with it proves you could create web based versions of standard "Office" type applications very easily with GOA-Winforms if you are a .NET programmer. This really shows how ahead of the game for "R-I-A" applications that Silverlight 1.1 for .NET is. This really shows how far the .NET programmer is ahead of the game for development over other so-called "R-I-A" platforms (gasping for air anyone?). Before anyone says it, yes they have a version of the application that outputs to Flash runtimes, but the reality of it, is the GOA Winforms product is aimed squarely at the .NET programmer using Visual Studio as their development enviornment.

I have to say this company and product continues to impress me. Go over and play with the demo, you will be amazed right down to the online "collaboration" menu on this demonstration application. If you are developing real applications with Visual Studio and need to port them to the Web GOA Winforms for Silverlight. This puts "R-I-A" development on a whole new level which isn't possible in other RIA platforms, because of the sheer maturity of the windows platform controls. I'd love to see paint.net moved to this format, because it's very possible they could do this and in my opinion it would put other so-called "photo" retouching type applications for the web to shame, just because of what can already be done here..

This is a great development tool, and it's all available now..